Surviving crash-landings and monsters and island-eaters was only the
beginning!
The Kimei family and a second group of castaways, led by Sergeant
Campbell, had finally joined forces after both had been forced to land
on the bizarre planet Lincoln, whose continents were huge floating coral
colonies, inhabited by even stranger lifeforms. They had survived
crash-landings and venom-filled bites and disease, their own despair,
and even the destruction - and consumption! - of one of their floating
islands, and had learned to live, even prosper, in their strange new
home.
Far away, Lieutenat Susan Fisher slowly pieces together the mystery of
what happened to the starship Outward Initiative...and begins to
believe that - just possibly - some of the survivors might have escaped
to a mysteriously unsuspected star system.
But even her preparations and the resourcefulness of the castaways may
not be enough...for Lincoln has far worse in store.